The Monstrous Heart by Oliver Emanuel: on sale now

The Traverse Theatre is excited to announce that The
Monstrous Heart, a brand new play by Oliver Emanuel, is on
sale now. A co-production between Traverse Theatre Company and
Stephen Joseph Theatre, it will premiere as part of Stephen Joseph
Theatre's summer/autumn 2019 season (3-19 October), before arriving
at the Traverse Theatre as part of our autumn/winter 2019 season
(22 October-2 November). This marks the first time that the
Traverse Theatre and Stephen Joseph Theatre have worked together
collaboratively.

Written by the award-winning Oliver Emanuel (The 306
trilogy; Flight; Dragon) and directed by the Traverse
Theatre's Interim Artistic Director Gareth Nicholls (of smash hit
Ulster
American, which returns 20 February-2 March, before
touring internationally), The Monstrous Heart is a
thrilling, chilling and witty piece of new writing. It examines
afresh the eternal question of whether we are the product of nature
or nurture, or if we can we ever really change how we're made. Is
it possible to kill our old selves and create someone new and
better in their place?

Mag lives in a rustic cabin in the Canadian wilds, far from
neighbours and further from her past. But when her estranged
daughter Beth turns up on the doorstep newly released from prison,
the past becomes terrifyingly present. And it has teeth. Beth came
to ask Mag a question. But is she prepared for the answer? Can they
really settle their scores? And can Mag keep an innocent party from
being destroyed in the crossfire? As a blizzard closes in and
dangerous words are traded, Mag accepts a challenge from a most
unexpected source and lights a fuse that looks set to blow both
women sky high.